Re: [DML] Modifications to Byrne's LCA's (Ball Joints)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure looks like a screwdriver slot to me (where do you think I got the idea from...): http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/536422_386690328042890_100001057778755_1143103_1850461111_n.jpg

Kind of hard to put a floor jack under the suspension when one's vehicle is on a lift....

Bill Robertson
#5939

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Martin Gutkowski" <martin@...> wrote:
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> Never seen a ball joint with a screwdriver slot. Must be an american car thing?
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> Martin
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> I cut my screwdriver slots at the same time I was drilling the ball joints for grease fittings. I found it easy to do both while the arms were loose on my workbench. Only took a couple of swipes with an abrasive wheel in my Dremel tool. 
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> Most ball joints come with screwdriver slots -- this is hardly an unusual modification.
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> Bill Robertson
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> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Martin Gutkowski" <martin@> wrote:
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> > The ball joint can be locked into the hub by putting a jack under the arm and lifting it. Then you can do the nut up. No modification necessary.
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> > I did make two modifications to Byrne's ball joints:
> > 1) Cut screwdriver slots in the end of the stems to hold them still until they taper locked in the knuckles (the lock nuts want to spin the stems before they have taper locked)
> > 2) Added grease fittings
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> > Bill Robertson
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